Speaking of Dividends

ADP and Three Insurers Lift Payouts

Prudential Financial, StanCorp Financial Group, and Lincoln National also raise their dividends.

Investors in giant payroll-processor Automatic Data Processing got a 10% pay raise last Tuesday. It came in the form of an enriched quarterly common dividend, to 48 cents a share from 43.5 cents.

With the stock (ticker: ADP) trading at a new 52-week high of $77.43 on Nasdaq (it's ahead about 35% so far this year), the heftier dividend translates into a 2.5% yield. ADP has sweetened distributions every year since they began in 1974....